Round 2 September 2025

[Daddyfink]

 

[gasman]

Nothing really interests me in 1:25, maybe I’ll get another scirocco, 1:64 will be a very expensive month for me. 

[Jim B]

4 minutes ago, gasman said:

Nothing really interests me in 1:25, maybe I’ll get another scirocco.

Agreed.  Maybe a Scirocco.

[Stef]

What a phenomenal September; I want the Batmobile, Scirocco, Nova, and prolly everything else, too.

[stavanzer]

The Nova is the "B" Team at it again.

Lousy (Unimaginative) Decals, Only 4 Tires, no extra wheels. A One & Done kit....I wish they had done better. The Lenco Trans and Tunnel Ram really limit how you can build the kit and the parts included aren't really "Pro-Street" either.

The Scirrocco is the "A" Team in Action. Great Decals, Nifty Box Art, Nice options.

The Rest of the "Class of 69" is a mixed bag, IMHO.

I like the Merc Cougar, but the Chevy and Olds are Blandly 'Meh'......

The Batmobile will be a success, but they always are.

The 2013 Camaro is a Love-It or Hate-It kinda kit. The Folks who love it will buy multiples, the rest will pass it by. Lacking an Engine is a liability, but not huge.

The Diamond Rio is nice, and good to see again. The Decals are noteworthy.

 

Edit:

Added Instructions for the Nova. The Lousy Box Art on the first issue must have killed sales....

https://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/amt-instructions/automotive-cars--pi/chevrolet/1971-1980/amt-1976-chevy-nova/?view=roll#1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by stavanzer

[Stef]

A few years back, I got the early 2000s reissue of the 76 Nova with the orange car on the box. Was pleasantly surprised this "street machine" looking box art car turned out to be a fully-tubbed Pro Stock / Pro Street kit, yet perplexed that it ran on undersized rear street tires that do not fill out the tubbed interior/chassis. It's nice to see Round 2 correct this oversight.

[Shon Wittenbarger]

I don't know who is calling the shots at Round 2, but they need to go. The Nova is another reissue they have butcherd. I bought 2 of them when it first came out in the 70s. It was a Pro Stock not Pro Street when it first came out. Again they have halfa$$ a pretty decent kit, they have taken the fiber glass bucket seats out and put the puffed up bucket seats in it and added mufflers and of course a new decal sheet.

        They screwed up the Baja Patrol reissue, and now they screwed this one up.  I can not tell you when the last time I have bought a kit from them. I not going to pay the price what they want for a kit with less parts and more decals. It's beginning to be a joke.